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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue, Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible?
(a) Comedy
(b) Lust
(c) Joy
(d) Rapture

2. What is NOT a symbol of this central item, as referenced in #25 and #26?
(a) Tree
(b) Fountain
(c) Mountain
(d) Whale

3. What flows from this central area, as Campbell describes?
(a) Peace
(b) Beauty
(c) Understanding
(d) Truth

4. What is the spiritual city, and thus center for those who practice the Muslim faith?
(a) Babylon
(b) Mecca
(c) Their city of birth
(d) The city of their mosque

5. What is the term for experiences, ideas, or beliefs that differ in species from individual to individual and culture to culture, but which in their broadest outlines manifest basic human truths?
(a) Archetypes
(b) Journeys
(c) Inexhaustible energies
(d) Dreams

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the central figure in the second example offered by Campbell, in relation to this person encountering a series of obstacles and is aided by a wise old man along the way?

2. What is a narrative form anchored in the pain and fear of that ultimate truth of death?

3. The perilous journey [of the hero] was a labor not of attainment, but of ___________."

4. All things, moral and ________, beautiful and ________ emerge from this central area.

5. Which section deals with the theories about the importance and/or presence of myth in human culture, society, and individual experience?

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